Vannessa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Vannessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,232 babies named Vannessa between 1951 and 2022, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vannessa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 123 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vannessa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 785 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Vannessa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 723 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Vannessa in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vannessa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,232 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.